October 17: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is October 17th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on October 17th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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October 17th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

October 17th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Franco Albini, Italian Neo-Rationalist architect and chair designer (Fiorenz, Gala, Luisa, Margherita and Rocking Chaise), was born on October 17, 1905.

Cristofano Allori, Italian Florentine Mannerist painter (Judith with the Head of Holofernes), was born on October 17, 1577.

Frederick Childe Hassam, American painter (Celia Thaxter's Garden, Just Off the Avenue, Snowstorm - Madison Square, Sunset at Sea and The Water Garden), was born on October 17, 1859

Mike Judge, American animator (Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill), was born on October 17, 1962.

American film director Rob Marshall (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha and Nine), was born on October 17, 1960.

October 17th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Paul Anderson, American weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist (1956), was born on October 17, 1932.

Robert (Evel) Craig Knievel, American motorcycle stunt rider, daredevil and actor (Viva Knievel), was born on October 17, 1938. His son is motorcycle stunt star Robbie Knievel.

Maria Gorokhovskaya, Russian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist (1952), was born on October 17, 1921.

Bob Seagren, American pole vaulter, Olympic gold medalist (1968) and actor (Soap), was born on October 17, 1946.

October 17th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

American television journalist and writer Elie Abel (The Missile Crisis and What's News: the Media in American Society) was born on October 17, 1920.

British hymnist ("In the Cross of Christ I Glory"), theologian and statesman John Bowring, was born on October 17, 1792.

Jimmy Breslin, American syndicated newspaper columnist (News, Newsday and The New York Post) and author (Table Money), was born on October 17, 1930.

German Lutheran scholar Johann Gerhard (Confessio Catholica, Das Wahre Christenthum and Meditationes Sacrae) was born on October 17, 1582.

American poet Jupiter Hammon (An Evening Thought) was born on October 17, 1711.

Arthur Miller, American playwright (All My Sons, The American Clock, Broken Glass, Clara, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Finishing the Picture, Incident at Vichy, It Takes a Thief, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Misfits, Playing for Time, The Price, Resurrection Blues, Rhinoceros and The Ride Down Mount Morgan), author (After the Fall, Echoes down the Corridor, Focus, The Theater Essays and A View from the Bridge) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1949 and 1955), was born on October 17, 1915. Arthur Miller was married to actress Marilyn Monroe.

Jerome (Jerry) Siegel, American cartoonist (Superman), was born on October 17, 1914.

American novelist Nathanael West (A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust, The Dream Life of Balso Snell and Miss Lonelyhearts) was born on October 17, 1903.

October 17th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

American food manufacturer Charles Kraft (Kraft Company) was born on October 17, 1880.

October 17th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Betty May (Julie) Adams, American actress (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Maverick and Murder She Wrote), was born on October 17, 1926.

Sergio Andrade, Guatemalan-American rock musician (LifeHouse), was born on October 17, 1977.

American actor Sam Bottoms (Apocalypse Now, Bronco Billy, Class of '44, East of Eden, The Last Picture Sho, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Prime Risk, Project Shadowchaser 3000, Return to Eden, Savages and The Witching of Ben Wagner) was born on October 17, 1955. Sam Bottoms is brother to actors Ben Bottoms, Joseph Bottoms and Timothy Bottoms.

American actress Spring Dell Byington (Angels in the Outfield, December Bride, In the Good Old Summertime, Jezebel, Laramie, Little Women and Please Don't Eat the Daisies) was born on October 17, 1893.

Margarita (Rita Hayworth) Carmen Cansino, American dancer (The Dancing Cansinos), actress (Angels Over Broadway, Blondie on a Budget, Blood and Sand, Charlie Chan in Egypt, Circus World, Cover Girl, Dante's Inferno, Down to Earth, Gilda, Hit the Saddle, The Lady From Shanghai, Meet Nero Wolfe, Miss Sadie Thompson, My Gal Sal, Only Angels Have Wings, Paid to Dance, Pal Joey, Salome, Susan and God, Tales of Manhattan, They Came to Cordura and You'll Never Get Rich) and World War II pinup star, was born on October 17, 1918. Rita Hayworth was married to Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan and three others.

American actor Edward Montgomery Clift (From Here to Eternity, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Misfits, A Place in the Sun, Raintree Country, The Search and Suddenly, Last Summer) was born on October 17, 1920.

William Randolph (Cozy) Cole, American jazz drummer and actor (The Glen Miller Story and Make Mine Music), was born on October 17, 1909. Cozy Cole played with Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and other jazz greats.

Jerry Colona, American comedian (The Jerry Colona Show), was born on October 17, 1903.

American country singer Earl Thomas Conley ("Angel in Disguise," "Chance of Lovin' You," "Don't Make It Easy for Me," "Fire and Smoke," "Holding Her and Loving You," "I Can't Win for Losin' You," "Love Don't Care Whose Heart It Breaks," "Love Out Loud," "Nobody Falls Like a Fool," "Once in a Blue Moon," "Right from the Start," "Somewhere Between Right and Wrong," "We Believe in Happy Endings" and "Your Love's on the Line") was born on October 17, 1941.

Beverly Garland Fessenden, American actress (The Bing Crosby Show, The Desperate Hours, DOA, My Three Sons and Scarecrow and Mrs. King), was born on October 17, 1926.

American actress Gladys (Jean Arthur) Georgianna Greene (The Devil and Miss Jones, The Jean Arthur Show, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Shane) was born on October 17, 1905.

Robert Larkin (Robert Lowery) Hanks, American actor (Batman and Robin, Big Town, Born Yesterday, The Caine Mutiny, Circus Boy, Dangerous Passage, Hazel, The Mark of Zorro, The Mummy's Ghost, Murder Over New York, Pistols and Petticoats, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond and Wagon Train), was born on October 17, 1913.

Alan Howard, British rock bassist (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes), was born on October 17, 1941.

American comedian, singer (The Hudson Brothers) and television personality (Bonkers and The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Comedy Show) Bill Hudson was born on October 17, 1949.

Marcia Virginia (Marsha) Hunt, American actress (Arizona Raiders, Blossoms in the Dust, Bury Me Dead, College Holiday, Flight Command, Human Comedy, Irene, Letter for Evie, Lost Angel, Panama Hattie, Pride and Prejudice, These Glamour Girls, Unholy Partners, Valley of Decision, Virginia Judge and Word to the Wives), was born on October 17, 1917.

Alan Eugene Jackson, American country guitarist and singer ("Blue Blooded Woman," "Chasin' That Neon Rainbow," "Chattahoochee," "Country Boy," "Don't Rock the Jukebox," "Gone Country," "Good Time," "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," "Like Red on a Rose," "Little Bitty," "Mercury Blues," "Midnight in Montgomery," "Remember When," "Small Town Southern Man," "Summertime Blues," "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues," "That'd Be Alright," "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning" and "A Woman's Love"), was born on October 17, 1958.

Haitian-American singer Wyclef Jean (The Fugees) was born on October 17, 1972.

Canadian actress Margot Ruth Kidder (Amityville Horror, Common Ground, Gaily Gaily, Smallville and Superman) was born on October 17, 1948.

Chris Kirkpatrick, American pop singer (*N Sync), was born on October 17, 1971.

American actress Sharon Leal (Boston Public, Dreamgirls, Face the Music, Guiding Light, LAX, Legacy, This Christmas and Why Did I Get Married) was born on October 17, 1978.

Fred LeBlanc, American rock drummer and singer (Cowboy Mouth), was born on October 17, 1965.

American comedian and actor Norm MacDonald (Billy Madison, Doctor Dolittle, The Norm Show, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Saturday Night Live and Screwed) was born on October 17, 1964.

Matthew Macfadyen, British actor (Death at a Funeral, Enigma, Incendiary, MI-5, Mr. Bean's Wedding, Perfect Strangers, Pride and Prejudice, Spooks, Warriors and Wuthering Heights), was born on October 17, 1974.

David Nesta (Ziggy) Marley, Jamaican reggae guitarist, pianist and singer (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers), was born on October 17, 1968. He is son to reggae artist Bob Marley.

Marshall Bruce Mathers, III (Eminem or Slim Shady), American rap musician ("Guilty Conscience," "Just Lose It," "Like Toy Soldiers," "Lose Yourself," "Mockingbird," "My Name Is," "The Real Slim Shady," "Stan," "The Way I Am" and "Without Me") and Academy Award winner (2002), was born on October 17, 1972.

American actor Michael McKean (The Big Picture, The Brady Bunch Movie, Coneheads, Grand, Laverne and Shirley, Plane, Trains & Automobiles, Radioland Murders, Saturday Night Live, This Is Spinal Tap andUsed Cars), was born on October 17, 1947.

Irene (Granny) Ryan Noblette, American vaudevillian, radio personality (Ted and Irene) and actress (The Beverly Hillbillies and Heading for Heaven), was born on October 17, 1903.

Tom Poston, American comedian, actor (Bob, Mork & Mindy, Newhart, On the Rocks, A Perfect Little Murder, The Steve Allen Show and Up the Academy) and television personality (To Tell the Truth), was born on October 17, 1921.

American rock singer Gary Puckett (Gary Puckett and the Union Gap) was born on October 17, 1942.

Howard E. Rollins, Jr., American actor (Another World, In the Heat of the Night, Member of the Wedding, Ragtime and A Soldier's Story), was born on October 17, 1950.

American pop guitarist, fiddler, saxophonist and singer James Seals (Seals and Crofts) was born on October 17, 1941.

James Ray Tucker, American rock guitarist and singer (The Turtles), was born on October 17, 1946.

American tennis player and actor (Apple's Way, The Break, Charley and the Angel, The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission, Payback and Three for the Road) Vincent Van Patten was born on October 17, 1957. He is son to actor Dick Van Patten.

George Wendt, American actor (Cheers, Fletch, Man of the House, Never Say Die and No Small Affair), was born on October 17, 1948.

American heavy metal rock guitarist Allen West (Obituary) was born on October 17, 1967.

October 17th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Ernest William Goodpasture, American physician and pathologist (Goodpasture's Syndrome), was born on October 17, 1886.

Mae Jemison, American physician and astronaut (1992 Space ShuttleEndeavor), was born on October 17, 1956.

October 17th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Richard Mentor Johnson 9^th Vice President of the United States (under 8^th U.S. President Martin Van Buren), was born on October 17, 1780.

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